SC Solutions: Value Through Innovation

SC Solutions provides innovative engineering solutions to our clients in the fields of structural engineering and advanced process control. Our engineers are among the most talented in their fields. They bring deep experience and extraordinary focus to their work and deliver exceptional results.

SC Solutions Structural Engineering provides solutions to owners and designers of critical infrastructure seeking to understand and mitigate risks associated with high-consequence structural performance. We combine our technical expertise and unique experience with advanced technologies to help our clients realistically characterize the behavior and performance of structures subjected to extreme events. This ensures that facilities and systems are maintained for safe and reliable operation under even the most demanding conditions.

Sound Transit’s East Link Extension Project is featured in the Popular Science magazine as one of the 100 greatest innovations of 2017. The project involves extending light rail transit (LRT) from Seattle to Bellevue, WA, on the Homer M. Hadley Floating Bridge (WSDOT I-90). When the Extension opens for service, it would be the world’s […]

Dr. Abbas Emami, Dr. Jon Ebert, and Dr. Dick de Roover attended the Automatic Process Control (APC) conference October 9-12 in Austin, Texas, where SC Solutions sponsored the October 10 reception. The conference provided an opportunity to network with experts and managers from a broad cross-section of the semiconductor, memory, LED, solar devices, flat panel, […]

Dr. Sarbajit Ghosal attended the COMSOL Conference in Newton, MA, October 4-6. The conference brought together Multiphysics modelers from academia, industry and government research labs spanning a wide range of modeling applications. It was an opportunity for SC, a Certified COMSOL Consultant, to compare notes with fellow modelers, and learn about the features of the […]

SC Solutions is excited to announce that the Structural Division office location in East Bay California has moved from Walnut Creek to Oakland City Center. This transition brings us closer to many of our valued clients and partners in order to further our commitment of providing responsive service and value-added collaboration. The Oakland City Center […]

Ms. Phoebe Cheng (Principal Engineer at SC Solutions) presented a case study on the seismic analysis and performance-based retrofit design of several large buried water storage reservoirs at the 3rd International Conference on Performance-based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (PBD-III). The conference was hosted by the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Technical […]

Matthew Bowers, P.E. M.ASCE of SC Solutions was honored by the Innovation Contest judges in ASCE’s 2017 Grand Challenge initiative for a paper submission in the Internet of Things category. From a diverse group of ideas, the judges selected three overall-award recipients and recognized further winners in five categories. ASCE’s Industry Leaders Council debuted the […]

Chuck Ruth, PE, SE, of SC Solutions was quoted in a news article by the Seattle Times reflecting on the challenges involved with the addition of light rail transit (LRT) on the I-90 Homer M. Hadley floating bridge. The article highlights the innovative engineering solution required to successfully build and operate the world’s first LRT […]

SC Solutions staff joined our colleagues and friends in celebrating the contributions of women in transportation at the 2017 Puget Sound Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) Gala. The WTS Gala is an annual awards and scholarship dinner to recognize “outstanding transportation projects, programs, and people in the Puget Sound area.”

Dr. Emami and Dr. de Roover attended the seventh SEMICON China trade show at the Shanghai New International Expo Center over three days from March 14 through March 16. The conference is the premier platform for exhibitors and visitors to explore the entire China’s semiconductor industry supply chain. Apart from offering insights into the future direction […]

SC Solutions is proud to welcome back Chuck Ruth, PE, SE as a valued member of the SC team in Seattle, WA. Alex Krimotat, VP of Structural Engineering for SC, notes: “We are excited to have Chuck re-join SC Solutions to continue strengthening our transportation infrastructure engineering support services, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. His […]

Dr. Jon Ebert and Dr. Jun Kyu Lee attended the 14th annual DOE SSL R&D Workshop at Hyatt Regency, Long Beach where top experts from universities, labs, and companies large and small converged to share the latest on advances in solid state lighting (SSL) technology. The workshop examined market forces that are shaping SSL technology, […]

In support of WTS’s vision to promote lifelong careers in transportation for women, SC Solutions sponsored a table for staff, friends and colleagues to participate in an inspiration-filled evening at the Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) Sacramento Chapter Annual Awards and Scholarship dinner.

SC is one of five companies selected for Award of Small Business Innovation Research – Small Business Technology Transfer Program (SBIR-STTR) Grants for SSL Technology development awarded by Department of Energy in its FY17 Phase I Release 1. This project seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of an innovative control technology for improved within-wafer temperature uniformity […]

Dr. Sarbajit Ghosal attended the 2016 SSL Technology Development Workshop in Denver on November 16 and 17, 2016. Organized by the U.S. Department of Energy, this meeting brought together manufacturers, scientists, and end users in the Solid State Lighting (SSL) Industry to share diverse perspectives and identify what needs to be done to leverage the […]

The Georgia office of SC Solutions, located outside of Atlanta, celebrated recent growth with a summer picnic for staff and their families. The beautiful weather and a delicious array of southern-style barbeque was a great backdrop for reflecting on the hard work and unique culture that has allowed SC to maintain lasting success. SC prides […]

SC is one of six companies selected for award of Small Business Innovation Research – Small Business Technology Transfer Program (SBIR-STTR) Grants for SSL Technology development awarded by Department of Energy in its FY16 Phase I Release 1. This project proposes to develop an innovative temperature control technology for use in metal-organic chemical vapor deposition […]

Matt Bowers, Phoebe Cheng and Jay Lin of SC Solutions attended the 2014 ASCE Region 9 Symposium on Friday, March 14. The event was held at Delancy Street Foundation at The Embarcadero in San Francisco. The Symposium featured a presentation on Devil’s Slide, a tunnel project that is part of SC’s portfolio of work. The […]

By invitation from the Mexican Society of Geotechnical Engineering (SMIG), the Mexican Society of Structural Engineering (SMIE) and the Mexican Society of Earthquake Engineering (SMIS), Julio Garcia of SC Solutions presented a seminar on the topic of “Seismic Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants” at the Mexican Association of Civil Engineers, in Mexico City. Dr. Garcia […]

Dr. Jon Ebert, Director of Systems and Control at SC Solutions gave a Webinar on August 6, entitled, “Simulating Feedback Control of Thermal Systems using COMSOL”. Many manufacturing processes, such as semiconductor and materials processing, rely on feedback control to maintain their required yield and performance. In this webinar, Dr. Ebert demonstrated a systematic approach […]

SC Solutions was awarded a 7-year Rail Delivery Partner (RDP) contract, as part of WSP Parsons Brinkerhoff’s team for the next phase of the California High Speed Rail (HSR) Project. SC Solutions provides technical support to the RDP team, including engineering design criteria development and program-level design-build construction support. SC Solutions was previously part of […]

The March 2014 issue of the ASCE Civil Engineering magazine includes coverage of the Sound Transit project to install light-rail tracks on the Homer Hadley floating bridge in the state of Washington. The Homer Hadley is the widest and fifth-longest floating bridge in the world. In addition to a well-written profile of the design and […]

SC Solutions proudly supported the 9th Nuclear Plants Current Issues Symposium: Moving Forward, in Charlotte, NC., as a Silver Sponsor. The Symposium brought together engineers, utility owners, regulators, policy makers, researchers, and many others from across the industry to discuss current issues and to share lessons learned. The topics ranged from implementation of the recommendations […]

Iman Talebinejad and Hassan Sedarat presented two papers at SPIE/Smart Structures NDE 2014 in San Diego, CA. SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics. The conference was held at the Town & Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego on March 9-13, 2014. The papers are available for purchase at the SPIE […]

SC Solutions was recently honored with two Engineering Excellence awards from ACEC, the American Council of Engineering Companies. The ACEC California’s 2014 Engineering Excellence Awards & Legislative Reception was held on Monday, February 3, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento. The two awards presented to SC Solutions were both Honor Awards. The two projects […]

The 2013 Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting was held January 13-17, 2013 in Washington, D.C. One of the presentations at the conference featured the work of SC Solutions. “I-90 Track Bridge Project for Sound Transit” was presented by John Harrison of Parsons Brinkerhoff and John Sleavin of Sound Transit on Tuesday, January 15, 2012. Analysis […]

The SC Solutions team, consisting of Dr. Jon Ebert, Dr. Sarbajit Ghosal, Dr. Dick de Roover, and Dr. Abbas Emami-Naeini, presented “Experimental Validation of Model of Electro-Chemical-Mechanical Planarization (ECMP) of Copper” at the COMSOL conference in Boston, October 3-5, 2012. This paper describes the development of a COMSOL model of Electro-Chemical-Mechanical Planarization (ECMP) that was validated […]